We all know that being without that special person that you love can be hard, but what if you could send love and affection remotely over the internet from just hugging a pillow?

Now, we can’t really send hugs, but we can send a sweet emoji through a messaging app, triggered by you giving a pillow a hug.

When you hug the I Love You Pillow you will hear the sound of a heartbeat coming from the buzzer inside. Depending on the time you keep hugging, a different emoji will be sent from a Telegram Bot to whatever chat you choose.

Stay in touch with your loved one with this huggable device!

In a nutshell:

In this experiment we will use aluminium foil to create a DIY capacitive sensor that will be used to detect hugs.

In order to create our hug-sending-device we will need the following components: